Originally posted by Bob Olhsson:
The dongle protects the vendors but it also protects us from not being able to use the software at some point in the future because a vendor went out of business.
It's a drag but the people to blame are the folks who steal software.
the people who are to blame are the people who develop software who force iLok upon us... not the people who steal it [who bypass the dongle anyway with emulation]
i dont see how it will protect anyone once the vendor goes out of business considering plugins have been becoming obsolete within a few versions anymore with the advancements [wrong word, changes] in the OS they run under.
iLok is just another form of the paranoia that seems to run deep through this country and world at the moment. nobody trusts anybody, and it shows how much the companies trust their [legitimate] clientbase, punish them with iLok while the thieves run rampant with kracks anyway. kinda makes you want to be a thief over a legitimate customer. treat me like a thief and i will act like a thief...
of course, i buy no software that uses iLok and will boycott that company [pace/iLok] until they no longer exist.... and i urge any software developer who thinks of using them as "protection" not to do so or they too lose me as a customer... psp has already lost sales from me from their new association with the company... fortunately the plugins i love from them are still non-iLok products.